̃Motion by Sandie Rietz, seconded by Mark
Hardt to accept Items 12 through 12.g
for information.

Tom Dell, Rehabilitation and
Human Services Department, stated that these changes add an addiction
counseling emphasis to the bachelor’s and associate’s programs.

̃
Motion carried.

V.ITEMS – SECOND READING

Item 7 Academic Senate Bylaws Article I
Section B. Accountability. Change required number of signatures to petition the
Senate to call a general faculty meeting from 25% of the faculty to 10 faculty
members.

̃Motion by Mark Hardt, seconded by Sandie
Rietz to approve Item 7 on second
reading.

̃Motion by Mark Hardt, seconded by Dave Gurchiek to approve Item 7.a
on second reading.

̃
Motion carried.

VI.PROVOST REPORT

Provost Pagano and Student
Affairs Vice Chancellor Klippenstein have been asked by the Chancellor to
review the situation with the staff of the Academic Support Center, at the
request of the VTEM faculty union.These
staff members teach multiple credits but are not part of either the Faculty
Association or VTEM.Drs. Pagano and
Klippenstein will report back to the Senate by the end of this year.

Searches

The College of
Business Dean search committee will meet on October 19 to review the more than
20 applications received.

Tasneem Khaleel
and Tracy Mouser are co-chairing the search for the Executive Director of
International Studies and Outreach.A
Senator is needed for the Committee.Susan Gilbertz agreed to serve.

The Vice
Provost search committee has not quite been formed, but a Senator is also
needed for that group.It will begin in
the Spring semester.Scott Murray agreed to serve.

Sandie Rietz is also serving on the search committee for
the Director of MSU Billings Extended Campus.

Dr. Pagano
noted that we will not need to search for a Director of Grants and Sponsored
Programs because David McGinnis is returning from his work with the National
Science Foundation to run our Grants Office starting January 1, 2013.

The strategic plan drafting is
going well.The comments received
amounted to 13 pages of information.There were three open forums, each attended by at least 25 people.The Committee is currently working through
all the comments received.

The Provost Office, in
conjunction with the presidents of the faculty unions, completed review of the
faculty professional development applications.They had lots of applications and almost all were accepted.The budget for the proposals was $80,000, but
the successful applications added up to $112,000.They decided to fund all the proposals at 75%
of their requested amount.Any funds
that are left, including those projects that cannot run with only 75% funding,
will be moved to next year.It was noted
that it seems odd to specifically have the presidents of the faculty unions
review these proposals.Dr. Pagano noted
that the presidents were working on this project at his request.

The next Provost Forum will be
this Monday at 8:00 a.m. in COE 122.The
topic this time is the Library.Next
semester the forum will be held at a different time.

Dr. Pagano also brought up his
request at the end of last Spring that the Senate look
into finding academic homes for courses that do not have them, such as the
A&SC 111 freshman seminar course.There are others, including the HON, LS, and PSLL courses.

̃ It
was agreed that a subcommittee of the Senate will be formed to assign these
courses to academic departments or programs.Sandie Rietz, Rakesh Sah, Scott Murray, Barb
Pedula, and Patricia Vettel-Becker agreed to serve on
the committee.

Dr. Pagano agreed that next
year some of the funding for CARE grants will be moved to the following
fiscal year for projects that span the summer.

The proposal
for an Ed.D.in the
College of Education is still in the strategic plan at this time.Provost Potvin at
Bozeman did not have a problem with our idea, but we do not know what President
Cruzado will think.We are being advised to watch what happens with Butte and their proposed
doctorate program.Butte still hasn’t
gotten approval to offer the degree, but they have not been told, “no,” either.

Dr. Pagano will follow up
regarding copyright issues and online courses.The BOR has mentioned revising their policy for online offerings.

Regarding teaching evaluations
now being processed by Bozeman, it was noted that these fall under the same
confidentiality as payroll documents.By
law, they cannot be accessed by just anyone.Also, to pull data, even unidentifiable aggregate data, from our
teaching evaluations would be a violation of Bozeman’s current I.T. policies.

VII.COMMITTEE REPORTS

Mr. Brumley reported that the
Academic Senate Executive Committee met to review attendance records.One at-large Senator was found in forfeiture
of the seat, but the ruling could be appealed to the Senate at today’s
meeting.As a result, we now have a
vacancy for which we will run an election.

At Cabinet, Mr. Brumley received
the request from the Chancellor that the Senate look
at reducing General Education to 30 credits to match the MUS core.Please talk to your colleagues about this
proposal and it will be on the next Senate agenda.It was noted that the Senate needs to know in
writing what the Chancellor expects of us, preferably with a rationale.It was cited that the BOR may eventually make
this a mandate of all units, as part of their initiative to reduce the time and
money students spend on college.

Mr. Brumley reported that Chad
Schreier, new Director of Jackets & Co., made a presentation to the Provost
Council regarding the changes happening at the bookstore.He will be asked to make the same
presentation to the Senate.

VIII.DISCUSSION/ACTION ITEMS

A. CCN Check Box on Senate Forms

We need a mechanism to make sure
faculty are checking the CCN database before changing,
deleting, or creating courses.

̃Motion by Susan Gilbertz, seconded by Scott Murray that a CCN check box will be added to the
New Course Form and Change/Delete Course Form.